YAY I LOVE INDOOR DRUMLINE.

Not.
I despise that extra curricular and loathe the stupid instructor guy, you could also say abhor (SAT word???)
All you do is show up for 3 hours every thursday and get verbally harassed.
But the best part is that today i have to go to a stupid practice/competition.  Get to the school at 1, get home at 12 = worst best day ever!

On the bright side, i'm about to eat dan dan mien (noodles) for lunch! Yum (:

lolkbye.

Lol wow.

Stayed up till 5:20 doing art hw.
Woke up at 6:15 for school.
Fantastic day right there.

Just another boring day....OR WAS IT?

No it definitely wasn't. (and lol for cheesy titles)

So today my dad and I left for new york city at around 7:30 am, and arrived at penn station at 8:45 ish
Then we got onto a subway car, and only after 5 minutes onboard, the car stopped and the lights went out.
When the backup lights came on, everyone was freaked out about what possibly could be the problem.  Amidst the confusion, i somehow realized that the girl sitting next to me went to camp with me two years ago. Random, huh?  But this woman next to me somehow recognized her right after me, and it turned out that her son went to the same school as her.  As they chatted about school and college (i sat in the middle, it sucked) the rest of the car was tense.  No one knew what had happened and the conductor wasn't telling us.  All of a sudden the end of the car opened, and a bunch of people filled into our already-crowded car.  They were just as confused and said they were told to move far back.  Then a few minutes later, a group of about 6 or 7 police officers sprinted through our car towards the front of the train.  We saw them running around on the tracks and searching for something (or someone D:) with flashlights.  When everything became silent again, people started to freak out.  A woman across from me offered some explanations.  She told us about this time 7 years ago when they had to stop and evacuate a subway train because there was someone on the tracks trying to commit suicide.  More time passed and the loudspeaker finally gave us a vague explanation that there was a violent man, but he had been arrested and we would be moving shortly.  Half an hour later, a police officer told us that a murderer who killed 4 people and wounded several others yesterday, had been arrested today.  Apparently a man recognized him while he was reading the morning paper, and notified police.  We didn't hear it from our car, but there had been a stabbing and a lot of screaming. Well, technically, the police officer didn't give us any of that information.  He just said that they arrested an alleged murderer.  As awful as it sounds, this gave everyone a feeling of security, finally knowing what was going on (kind of) even though there was a freaking murderer on our train.

Another hour passed, and a man who happened to have a copy of the new york times gave it to this little woman who read the article aloud to everyone.  Every 15 minutes the conductor would tell us to be patient, and of course no one was being patient lol.  This one woman started to get pretty pissed, and then all the women around me yelled at her and told her to count her blessings because she was damn lucky she wasn't in the same car as the murderer guy and that we were safe.  She kept on repeating the phrase "we're safe, we're safe" even after the pissed lady fell silent.  Finally we evacuated the train slowly and police officers had to take everyone's statements.  We basically had no idea what actually happened so all we could contribute was that people came into our car and police officers ran through it. When we were finally let off the train, we arrived at the police-swarmed platform.  Legit, they were everywhere.  My dad and I walked up the steps, resurfacing only to see the press snapping photos with their noisy cameras.  My dad told me we were famous. I told him he was dumb.


By then two hours had passed, and we'd missed our scheduled info session and tour at columbia.  So we went to this amazing noodle house and i had this gigantic bowl of curry chicken soup noodle.  It was delicious, needless to say.  Then we walked around in the freezing cold since we were at around 42nd street and we needed to get to 100 something.  We tried the subway again, but they shut down the line in order to question people and stuff.


Okay the exciting stuff is basically over, so i'll just summerize the rest of it.
We went shopping for a little, missed our 2:11 train, walked around, and just made it to the 3:11 train haha.

Then we went home, the end.

Anyway, here's the article with details: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/nyregion/13stab.html?ref=nyregion

I had other stuff to talk about, but i think i've typed enough for today -_-

Birthday ? Chinese New Year? Setsubun?

Yes it is all three (setsubun is a japanese festival where you throw beans at demons and chase them out of your house)

Well so far my day was......eeeh, extremely average to start

....but then it was fantastic because of my friends (:

so it basically started at 12:00 am when i was in a screaming match with my mom about god knows what.  I don't even remember.  But then i woke up to yells of "YOU'RE GOING TO BE LATE"
so of course i rush, and still end up late to my driver's test.
this asshole freak yells at me for not having decals
so i go stand in line for 50 minutes, and get decals.
then i go back and get yelled at for other various things.
then i fail.
then i get a lecture on how i'm great at driving, but suck at parallel parking.
then i fume while my dad drives me home.
then i get chilli, finish crying, and go to school
then i have an awful time at school, but a few of my friends were really nice to me (:
then i am about to finally go home, when my physics group decides to work on a project
then i walked out of my friends car and walk back to school
so i work on the project for like 15 minutes and walk home through the ice and random shit.
then i have another argument with my parents, surprised?

but THEN my fantastic and loving friends come over and give me gangster shoes haha
then another fantastic friend made me red velvet cupcakes nummm
then i ate a candy dumpling that my sister made <3
then i went to SUPER GAY indoor drumline
then my friend crashed in the middle of it and gave me a coolata (:
then the same friend came and drove me home and we ate cake and cupcakes and all sorts of delicious fattening things
then she left :'(
and now i'm typing this blog !!
So even though the day got off to an awful start, i feel fantastic right now
oh! and my japanese exchange student from last year just IMed me (:
in short, it was the best birthday and the worst birthday, but i liked it n_n
now i'm gonna go eat dumplings cuz it's also CHINESE NEW YEAR !
Happy New Year guys !!